drop shot for lg.mouth bass

[gbassman519]

Do any of you do this ? do you use different baits than you do with sm. mouth ?

[Big Hands]

We have both largemouth and smallmouth in the lake I regularly fish, and they are often mixed in with each other. When they are, I usually catch two or three LM to each SM and they will both eat the same dropshot rigs. The lake I fish is a steep banked canyon reservoir with mostly rocky structure. Senkos and Jackall flick shake worms wacky rigged, and an assortment of Roboworms in straight and curly tail varieties along with Keitech Easy Shiners and Swing Impact in sizes ranging from 2.5" to 4" are all good producers for our LM and SM.

 

I have days where I don't catch SM, but do catch all LM, and often catch both, but I haven't had any days where I caught exclusively SM.

 

And, the dropshot is probably the best overall bait to fish with here if you want to get bit consistently. Of course I am 3,000 miles away from you and your local denizens of the deep may have their own localized preferences.

[roadwarrior]

Berkley Maxscent Flat Worms are THE BOMB!

 

[gbassman519]

yes but that helps me a lot,some of the bass are 30 ft deep and i was thinking that this the only way i can catch them.

 

max sent i've seen on tv buthaven't used it yet  thanks for reply.

 

[BassNJake]

Yes, We have both smallmouth and largemouth here. Sometimes they are mixed together.

 

I'll use a beefed up drop shot (Bubba shot) to target brush piles in deeper water

This is a largemouth specific technique. 

For whatever reason, sometimes they suspend in the  branches and wont chase something all the way to the bottom. (everybody and their brother will toss jigs and texas rigs so that may be why)

[Raul]

Down here at my neck of the woods we ain't got no brown bass, we only got the green kind, the kind of green one that grows BEEG, I used to fish the "hook above sinker" technique before it was called d-shot, we normaly use two different setups to fish different types of waters, in waters with little cover you can use lighter tackle for the technique, in waters with cover, specially the kind of cover you find here south of the border heavier, more macho tackle might be necessary ..... something like 17-25 lb test just to be sure you can pull a fish out from a submerged mesquite tree.

[NHBull]

While it is hard to beat the Flat Max Scent, I have a lot of luck with a weedless 4 inch GY senko on a NEKO or 1/0 round bend.

 

 

[Darth-Baiter]

I just let the underwater current give life to my worm.  I just wait for the tic. 
 

this one was fooled with a pink/purple worm. Morning dawn. 
 

 

[Mr. Aquarium]

I’ve done well flipping it to cover on beefier hooks baits and line 

[Boomstick]

The drop shot works for green and brown bass alike. A lot of times if you are fishing for brown bass, you will target drop offs and alongside rocks where with green bass you'll target weedlines, but if you target various drop offs like you are fishing for brown bass, sometimes that produces some mean massive green bass

[BassKicker619]

A staple down here in So Cal is the 4 or 6" Roboworm, in MMIII color. Hard to beat.

Also, don't be afraid to mix it up and d/s a craw or creature bait.

[Bluebasser86]

Shorten the leader and pitch it next to cover. I like the same Zoom shakyhead worm I use for smallmouth on a DS. I've had good success dropping it straight next to pole timber in deep water at Table Rock for largemouth and spots also. These two came off the same tree on back to back drops on The Rock a few years ago. 

[padon]

2 of the lakes i fish have both LM and SM. the LM outnumber the SM but they are frequently caught. both lakes are deep and clear but have grass out to about 20ft. the dropshot will catch both and very effectively. when im using a 4 inch or smaller bait i usually noes hook with a gamakatsu drop shot hook. if im fishing in grass ill use the roboworm rebarb or owner cover shot and rig weedless. another lake has 90%LM and i still drop shot there,usually a 6 inch roboworm on the weedless hook around grass and on brushpiles very effective. 

[WRB]

Depends on the lake but it’s usually more about location between LMB and SMB then soft plastic style and colors.

Generally Smallmouth prefer brighter colors colors and smaller sizes then LMB.

Roboworm Oxblood w/light red flake and Orange Crusher works for both at most SoCal lakes. MM111 works at times for both.

Tom

[UNC1078]

I catch largemouth on KVD dreamshot. I like triple magic the best.

[TnRiver46]

I’ve been on a school of smallies and dropped a DS down only to pull up a largemouth ????

 

they are bass, they eat the same stuff. One of them can just eat a slightly larger version of all that stuff 

[Fishin Dad]

We drop shot here a lot in summer on largemouth only lakes.  We target deeper weed lines and offshore rock.   I will rig with a trick worm, senko, fluke, other finesse worm.  On the weed line we rig it weedless by Texas rigging and texposing.    On the rocks, we often nose hook.